Stepping Away – What Happened

"Almost nobody talks about how to spend that money when you actually have the ability to do so. It's probably just unpopular. Maybe it's a bit niche. But I think there's a huge market out there of savers that they have no idea how to enjoy what they've worked so hard for."

"if you've saved enough, being frugal to the point where you can start spending more money, then it's worth it in ways that actually benefit your overall enjoyment of just day-to-day life."

"And no joke, after a few weeks of doing this, I feel better than I ever have in the last like 10 years, I could wake up now and I have full energy. I actually have way more focus. I'm not waking up tired and then thinking that I just got a bad night of sleep. I honestly feel 10 years younger."

"I now have a screensaver on my phone constantly reminding me to ask myself, is this a 20% action for an 80% result? And if the answer is no, I don't do it."

"I want my life to be peaceful. I want it to be stress free. And anything that gets in the way of that is just not worth it anymore."

"This allows me to focus on the 20% again that yields the best outcome overall. Or really, I guess in other words, I'd become this master at optimizing the 80% of my work that really led to 20% of the outcome. And when most of my stress, my headache is tied to that 80%, it becomes a no-brainer just to cut it out."

"the Trump tariff scare where the markets fell 25%. I just remember seeing my accounts lose years worth of savings, years worth of mental energy, bandwidth trying to find the best deal completely evaporated in a matter of a few hours in the stock market that I had just become completely desensitized to."

"It got to the point where most of my day was just completely unenjoyable. So, I made a very sudden change. I stopped doing everything that I was not 100% invested in, and I started selling off things that took up mental energy that I didn't want to think about."